Books in English

Kotimaisten kirjojen ja käännöskirjojen lisäksi luen paljon muilla kielillä. Eniten englanniksi, toiseksi eniten espanjaksi ja myös silloin tällöin ranskaksi ja italiaksi. Tältä sivulta löydät kootusti kaikki blogissa käsitellyt englanninkieliset kirjat. Arviot on kirjoitettu suomeksi, mutta keväästä 2024 alkaen olen alkanut lisätä niihin tiivistelmän englanniksi. Toivottavasti siitä on iloa niille sivukävijöille, jotka eksyvät kiinnostavan kirjan perässä tänne Suomen ulkopuolelta.

In addition to Finnish books and books translated into Finnish, I read a lot in other languages. Mostly in English, second most in Spanish and also occasionally in French and Italian. On this page you will find all the English-language books covered on the blog. The reviews are written in Finnish, but from spring 2024 onwards I have started to include a summary in English. I hope that it will be useful for those visitors who wander in from outside Finland in search of an interesting book.

Books in English

Akwaeke Emezi: Freshwater

11/05/2019

After all, were we not ọgbanje? It was an insult to be subject to the decisions made around what was just a vessel. To be carried away like cargo, to be deposited in the…
Amita Trasi: The Color of Our Sky

26/04/2019

In my bedroom, my bed stood neatly covered, just the way I had left it. I could hear the sound of our laughter, smell my childhood – the good Aai used to cook and…
Rebecca Stott: In the Days of Rain

19/04/2019

Across the fields in the half-light I could just make out something moving in the distance, a flash of white against the darkening trees. It was a barn owl, flying low through the dusk,…
Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping

17/04/2019

We were very upset, all the same, for reasons too numerous to mention. Clearly our aunt was not a stable person. At the time we did not put this thought into words. It existed…
Lisa See: The Island of Sea Women & Mary Lynn Bracht: White Chrysanthemum

10/04/2019

”Every woman who enters the sea carries a coffin on her back,” she warned the gathering. ”In this world, in the undersea world, we tow the burdens of a hard life. We are crossing…
Stephen Fry: Moab Is My Washpot & Mythos

21/03/2019

I, being I, went always that little bit too far of course. There was one master who had berated me in a lesson for some tautology or other. He, as what human being wouldn’t…
Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

19/03/2019

Survival, true survival of the body and soul, requires creativity, freedom of thought, collaboration. You might have time and I might have land. You might have ideas and I might have strength. You might…
Helen Macdonald: H is for Hawk

28/02/2019

All the way home on the train I thought of Dad and the terrible mistake I had made. I’d thought that to heal my great hurt, I should flee to the wild. It was…

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Akwaeke Emezi: Freshwater

Amita Trasi: The Color of Our Sky

Rebecca Stott: In the Days of Rain

Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping

Lisa See: The Island of Sea Women & Mary Lynn Bracht: White Chrysanthemum

Stephen Fry: Moab Is My Washpot & Mythos

Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

Helen Macdonald: H is for Hawk

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